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<h1>Editor Options: Hints</h1>
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<p>This tab enables you to customize hints and tips that help you as you type in the Source Editor. You can select which hints to display and whether to display hints as errors, warnings, or info. 
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<p>You can set the following options:</p>

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<p>Language</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t15 r1c2-t15">Select which language's hints you want to customize. The hints for the selected language appear in the tree view of hints.</td>
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<p>Tree view</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t15 r1c2-t15">Beneath the Language field is a tree view of the hints for that language. Tick a hint or group of hints for that hint or group of hints to display. When you select a hint, the Show As field for that hint is enabled, and a description of the hint appears in the Description field.</td>
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<p>Search</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t15 r1c2-t15">Enabled only for Java hints. Type part of the hint name in the field, and the IDE filters the tree view of hints to include only relevant hints.</td>
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<p>Show As</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t15 r1c2-t15">For the selected hint, select whether to display the hint as an error, a warning, a warning on the current line, or as info.</td>
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<p>Description</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t15 r1c2-t15">Description of the selected hint. This field cannot be edited.</td>
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